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An outstanding move for a company claiming to sell trust as a service.
by _verandaguy 6mo ago
An outstanding move for a company claiming to sell trust as a service.
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoThe issue I have with it is it's completely unsurprising. They just don't care and are testing the waters with the consequences or the lack thereof for these types of lies. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
- 3form 6mo agoReminds me of bunch of cases of high-profile people testing the waters of the low-quality Twitter posting. Turned out you can ride far not only despite it, but also thanks to it.
- abirch 6mo agoOfftopic but you've triggered my rant What is frustrating to me is the IRS was scammed. They sent my refund to some identity thief. This from an institution that if I owed them 10 cents, they could track down all of my financial accounts but they decide to deposit in some rando's account.
- 2ndorderthought 6mo agoSorry that happened to you, but these verifiers won't solve that problem. It's pretty easy to get a picture of someone's face and irises. Especially once a few more data bases inevitably leak so the government can get the data for free use.
- ArmadilloGang 6mo ago[dead]
- jacquesm 6mo agoNothing you can't fix with some spray paint.
- jonhohle 6mo agoMaybe that’s not a good way to verify someone’s identity then…
- ectospheno 6mo agoOwing tax each year instead of overpaying solves this problem. As long as it’s less than $1000 you won’t pay any interest or fees.
- ralph84 6mo agoThat doesn't solve anything when the fraudster is filing a fake return. They are under no obligation to include all of your carefully chosen income and deductions that get you to $1000 owed.
- dylan604 6mo agoWhat? In order to get a refund, that means you have to overpaid what you owe. It's pretty simple. If you are not putting in enough, the fraudster cannot get a refund as you still owe. Like, where is the break down? They would have to know how much you have paid, and then file so many deductions that it'd probably trigger an audit. If you file that many audits not with an account signing off of them, I could only imagine that would trigger an audit as well. Then again, the IRS has been beaten so badly that they barely have enough employees to function.
- smallmancontrov 6mo agoWhy would a scammer be discouraged by the possibility that the person they have chosen to steal from might get audited?
- dylan604 6mo agoAn audit would mean the refund is not automatically sent.
- smallmancontrov 6mo agoNope. Audits don't block refunds, they are an asynchronous process.
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- Mashimo 6mo ago> They sent my refund to some identity thief. How does that currently work? In DK they just send it to your "nem konto", the same bank account that also gets your wages. More or less a sym link, so even if you move bank it will follow. Makes life easy.
- nemomarx 6mo agowhen you file your tax paperwork each year you have to tell them which bank account to send the refund to. if someone else can file for you they can put in whatever info they like, so.
- ryandrake 6mo agoIn a sane world, this would just be a case of fraud between the IRS and the fraudster, and the person whose information was used would have nothing to do with it. It's unfortunate that we have this need to call it "identity theft" in order to try to shift the responsibility to some unrelated third party.
- Mashimo 6mo agoBut how do you authenticate when filling your taxes?
- nemomarx 6mo agoYou give them your social security number, which is pretty easily leaked, basically. if they think you're the target of identity theft they can step it up to requiring a PIN that they mail you?
- Mashimo 6mo agoWow, that is .. quite some thing. Here in Denmark we have MitID, which you kind of use for everything. Taxes, every private banking login (you switch banks, keep the login), signing documents, all kinds of healthcare websites and apps, student loans and what not.
- hvb2 6mo agoI mean, the US is the country that doesn't want a national id. So instead the defacto ID is your SSN. This was never designed with that in mind, lacks all security mechanisms/checksums and all. And if you were born before a certain time, all digits except the last few were determined by where you were born. And those last digits are the ones they frequently ask for... This is all just choices guys.
- mentalgear 6mo agoSam Altman: the CEO of companies selling 'Intelligence' and 'Trust' (... me Bro) as a service.
- TrailingArbutus 6mo agojudging by everyone in the AI space, is he that different though?